Over the last few years I spent a considerable amount of time arguing that the citizen-initiative process is not the best way to govern because there’s no accountability and there are likely to be unexpected consequences.
I opined that the fact that an initiative got on the ballot didn’t prove that the people wanted it, but that moneyed interests were successful in obtaining signatures.
I argued that we couldn’t conclude that voters were dissatisfied with legislators unless and until the initiative actually passed.
If I were a legislator, my take-away would not be that I needed to make the initiative process harder, or to proclaim that voters aren’t smart enough to know what I know.